Table Of ContentJohn F. “Jack” Ahern, FASLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
University of Massachusetts Amherst
[email protected]
www.people.umass.edu/jfa
EDUCATION
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Department of Physical Planning and Rural Development
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, 2002
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Fine Arts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Master of Landscape Architecture, 1980
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Bachelors of Science, Environmental Design, cum laude, 1974
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Vice Provost for International Programs, January 2011-present
Professor, September 1999-present
Department Head, September 1998 - September 2007
Associate Professor, 1992-1999
Assistant Professor, 1986-1992
Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Instructor and Department Chair, 1985-1986
Department of Ornamental Horticulture
Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, New York
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2011. Elected as Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
2005. Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), “Places Research Award”,
also Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for Research, for “People
and Places on the Outer Cape: A Landscape Character Study” (With: Ethan Carr,
Elisabeth Hamin, David Glassberg and LARP Graduate Students).
2004. Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Landscape Ecology, Lusiada University, Lisbon,
Portugal (Declined for personal reasons).
2002. Honor Award for Research, American Society of Landscape Architects,
Professional Awards. “Greenways as a Planning Strategy: Theory and Application”.
2000. Merit Award, Communications Category, American Society of Landscape
Architects. For the Book: A Guide to the Landscape Architecture of Boston.
Hubbard Educational Trust, Cambridge.
2000. Honor Award. Boston Society of Landscape Architects. For the Book: A Guide
to the Landscape Architecture of Boston. Hubbard Educational Trust, Cambridge.
Also the “Distinguished Friend Award” for the book from Boston by Foot.
1998. Merit Award. Boston Society of Landscape Architects. For book chapter
“Wildflower Meadows as Sustainable Landscapes” in R. Platt, R. Rowntree, and P.
Muick, editors, The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity,
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. Jestena Boughton, co-author.
1997. Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowship, Portugal (New University of
Lisbon, Agricultural University of Lisbon, Aveiro University)
1996. Inducted as Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA), Los
Angeles.
1995. Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, “Chicopee River Study”,
with LA 554 Studio.
1993-94. Faculty Fellowship, Department of Physical Planning and Rural Development,
Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1993. Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, “Campus Physical Master
Plan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst” with Mark Lindhult and John Mullin.
1991. Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, "Wildflower Meadow
Establishment and Management Research".
1990. Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
1990. Merit Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, "Quabbin to Wachusett
Wildlife Corridor Study", with LA 554 students.
1980. American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Certificate of Honor Award,
University of Pennsylvania.
1980. Distinguished Graduate Student Award, ASLA National Student Design
Competition, "Beckett New Town".
1980. First Place, U.S. National Crushed Stone Association/ American Society of
Landscape Architects National Student Design Competition (with John Jensen)
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
2010. Novotny, Vladimir; Ahern, Jack; and Paul Brown. Water-centric Sustainable
Communities, planning, retrofitting and building the next urban environment. John
Wiley & Sons, Hoboken. 606 pp.
2006. Leitão, André Botequilha; Miller Joseph; Ahern, Jack; McGarigal, Kevin.
Measuring Landscapes: A Planner’s Handbook. Island Press, Washington. 245 pp.
2006. Ahern, Jack; Elizabeth LeDuc and Mary Lee York. Biodiversity Planning and
Design: Sustainable Practices. Island Press, Washington. 110 pp.
2002. Ahern Jack. Greenways as Strategic Landscape Planning: theory and application.
Published Dissertation. Wageningen University, Netherlands, 175 pp.
1999. A Guide to the Landscape Architecture of Boston. Jack Ahern. The Hubbard
Educational Trust, Cambridge. 96pp.
1997. Environmental Challenges in an Expanding Urban World and the Role of
Information Technology. Conference Proceedings. João Reis Machado and Jack
Ahern, editors, Centro Nacional Informacão Geografica, Lisbon, Portugal, 525 pp.
B. Journal Articles
2011. Ahern, Jack. Biodiversity Challenges and Opportunities for Landscape Architects.
LA China.
2011. Ahern, Jack. From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: sustainability and resilience in the new
urban world. Special 100th Anniversary issue of Landscape and Urban Planning
Journal. 100:4, 341-343.
2011. Ahern, Jack. Sustainability and Cities: a landscape planning approach. Chinese
Landscape Architecture. 27:183, 62-68 (bilingual).
2010. Kato, Sada and Ahern, Jack. The Concept of Threshold and Its Potential Application to
Landscape Planning. Landscape and Ecological Engineering. 7:2, 275-282.
2009. Ahern, Jack. Greenways as Strategic Landscape Planning for Linear Landscapes.
LA China, 4:28-39.
2009. Ahern J., Jennings, L. , Fenstermacher, B., Warren,P., Charney,N., Jackson, S.,
Mullin, J., Kotval, Z., Brena, S., Civjan, S., and E. Carr. Issues and Methods for
Transdisciplinary Planning of Combined Wildlife and Pedestrian Highway Crossings.
Transportation Research Record No. 2123. Journal of the Transportation Research
Board, Washington DC, pp. 129-136.
2009. Kato, Sada and Ahern, Jack. Multifunctional Landscapes as a Basis for
Sustainable Landscape Development. Landscape Research Japan. 72:5, p. 799-804
2008. Silva, E. A., Ahern, J. and Wileden, J. 2008 Strategies For Landscape Ecology: An
application using cellular automata models. Progress in Planning, 70(4): 133-177.
2008. Kato, Sadisho and Jack Ahern. “Learning by Doing: Adaptive Planning as a
strategy to address uncertainty in planning. Environment and Planning Journal. V.
51:4, pp. 543-559.
2002. Leitão, André, B and Jack Ahern. “Applying landscape ecological concepts and
metrics in sustainable landscape planning”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 59:2, pp.
65-93. (This article has been a top 10 download, and is listed as one of the top 10
“highly cited articles” by Elsevier Publishers/landscape and Urban Planning, for the
20 year period 1986-2006).
2000. Ahern, Jack. “Greenways: A planning strategy for integrating nature and culture”.
Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, Vol. 64:2, pp 113-120.
1995. Machado, João Reis ; Andresen M. Teresa; Rico, Ana Toscano; Ahern Jack ;
Fabos, Julius Gy. "Metropolitan Landscape Planning: A Greenway Vision for the
Metropolitan Area of Lisbon". Landschap (The Netherlands Journal for Landscape
Ecology). pp.111-121.
1995. Ahern, Jack. "Greenways as a Planning Strategy" Landscape and Urban Planning,
33:1-3, 131-155.
1990. Ahern, Jack. “Planning for an Extensive Open Space System: Linking Landscape
Structure and Function”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 21:131-145.
C. Chapters in Books
2011. Pauleit, Stephan: Liu, Li; Ahern, Jack ; and Aleksandra Kazmierczak
“Multifunctional green infrastructure planning to promote ecological services in the
city” in Urban Ecology: patterns, processes and applications. Niemelä, Jari, Editor,
Oxford University Press. Ch. 5.3, pp. 272-285.
2007. Ahern, Jack. “Green Infrastructure for Cities: The Spatial Dimension”. In Cities of
the Future: Towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management.
Novotny, Vladimir; Brown, Paul, Editors. IWA Publishing, London. pp. 267-283.
2007. McGregor, Sharon and Ahern, Jack. “Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem
Protection”. In Preserving and Enhancing Communities, Hamin, Elisabeth; Silka,
Linda and Geigas, Priscilla, editors. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. pp.
101-119.
2006. Ahern, Jack. “Theories, methods and strategies for sustainable landscape
planning”. In: From Landscape Research to Landscape Planning: Aspects of
Integration, Education and Application. B. Tress, G. Tress, G. Fry, and P. Opdam,
Editors. Springer. pp. 119-131.
2005. Ahern, Jack. “Integration of landscape ecology and landscape architecture: an
evolutionary and reciprocal process” in Weins, John A., and Michael R. Moss,
Editors. Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology, Studies in landscape Ecology,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 307-315.
2004. Ahern, Jack. “Greenways in the USA: theory, trends, prospects” In: Ecological
Networks and Greenways: concept, design, implementation. R.H.G. Jongman and G.
Pungetti, Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 34-55.
2003. Wileden, Jack; Silva, Elisabete; Ahern, Jack. The CVCA Model: A Cellular
Automation Model of Landscape Ecological Strategies. European Simulation and
Modeling Society, ESM, 2003. ISBN: 90-77381-04-X.
2002. Ahern, Jack; France R.; Hough, M; Burley, J; Turner, W; Schmidt, S, Hulse, D,
Badenhope, J, and Jones, G. “Integrating Ecology Across the Curriculum of
Landscape Architecture”. In Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, Bart
Johnson and Kristina Hill, Eds. Island Press, Washington. pp. 397-413.
1999. Ahern, Jack. “Spatial concepts, planning strategies and future scenarios: a
framework method for integrating landscape ecology and landscape planning” in:
Landscape Ecological Analysis: Issues and Applications, Jeffrey Klopatek and Robert
Gardner, Editors, Springer-Verlag Inc. New York. pp. 175-201.
1994. Ahern, Jack. "Greenways as Ecological Networks in Rural Areas". in E.A. Cook
and H.N van Lier, Editors: Landscape Planning for Ecological Networks. Elsevier,
Amsterdam, pp. 159-178. (Refereed)
1994. Ahern, Jack and Jestena Boughton. "Wildflower Meadows as Sustainable
Landscapes", in The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity,
R.H. Platt, R. Rowntree, P. Muick editors, University of Massachusetts Press. pp.
172-187.
1990. Ahern, Jack. "Preparation and Establishment Techniques for Meadow Gardens" In
Meadows and Meadow Gardening, New England Wildflower Society, pp. 14-20.
D. Conference Proceedings
2011. September 28 - October 1. Invited keynote lecture "Green Infrastructure,
Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity" delivered at the Biodiversity Forum, Green
Infrastructure and Biodiversity, September 28- October 1, Estoril Portugal.
Caiscais Natura, Caiscais, Portugal
August 2011. Two contributed papers at the 8th IALE World Congress in Beijing,
China. Landscape Sustainability and Resilience: theories, principles and
strategies for urban planning and design (Submitted to Landscape Journal)
Biodiversity Urban Planning and Design Strategies and Best Practices
May 2011. Department of Housing and Construction of Guangdong Province, China
Department of Housing and Construction of Shenzen, China
BLY Design Institute, Shenzen, China
June 2011. Invited Keynote lecture: "Strategies for Sustainability in Rural Planning"
International Conference on Rural Regeneration. Sponsored by Council of
Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Soil and Water Conservation Bureau, NAtional
Taipei University - Department of Urban and Rural Planning.
2010. Ahern, Jack. “Sustainability and Cities: a Landscape Planning Approach”. Fábos
Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning 2010, Budapest, Hungary, July 8-
11. Published in Proceedings, pp. 561-568.
2010. Ahern, Jack. Green Infrastructure, Resilience and Urban Sustainability”
International Workshop on the Green Infrastructure Master Plan of Taipei Metropolis,
June 9, 2010, Taipei, TAIWAN. Proceedings, pp. (3)5-38.
2009. Ahern, Jack. Sustainability, Urbanization and Resilience, Keynote Lecture: First
International Conference of Humanities and Creative Industry, National Chin-Yi
University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, June 4. pp. 4-22.
1999. Ahern, Jack. Invited Keynote: “Greenways and Ecological Corridors in Urban
Environments”, in Proceedings: International Symposium on Man and Nature:
Landscape, Horticulture and Plant Resources, Guan Kaiyun and Iwatsuki Kunio,
Editors, Kunming, China, pp. 39-45.
1999. Ahern, Jack. Barriers, Opportunities, Strategies and Successful Examples of
Applying Landscape Ecology in Landscape Planning and Design, Panel Chair, 5th
World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Snowmass,
CO.
1998. Ahern, Jack and Fabos, Julius. 1998. “A Global Greenway Vision: The Role of
GIS” CD Proceedings: GIS PlaNET’98 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
1997. Ahern, Jack. “At the crossroads:”: Sustainable Future or Continued Urban
Sprawl?” in Machado, Joao Reis; and Ahern, Jack, Editors: Environmental
Challenges in an Expanding Urban World and the Role of Information
Technologies”, Centro Nacional Informacao Geografica, Lisbon, Portugal , pp. 13-26.
1997. “Scenarios for Landscape Planning”, 12th Annual Symposium of the US Division
of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Duke University, NC.
1996. “Greenways as a planning Strategy” 11th Annual Symposium of the U.S. Division
of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Galveston, TX.
1994. Ahern, Jack and Klaas Kerkstra. "Time Space, Ecology and Design: Landscape
Aesthetics in an Ecological Framework in the Netherlands" In Proceedings : Ecology
Aesthetics and Design, American Society of Landscape Architects, Wash, DC, pp.
49-60.
1993. Ahern, Jack; Fabos, Julius; Gavrin, Beth; Rasmussen, Meg. "Combining Factor and
Place Oriented Approaches in GIS-Aided Landscape Planning", In Proceedings of the
Thirteenth Annual ESRI User Conference, Redlands, CA, 1993, pp. 265-276.
1992. Ahern, Jack; Barker, Allan; Niedner, Cindy. "Roadside Wildflower Meadows:
Summary of the Benefits and Guidelines to Successful Establishment and
Management". Transportation Research Record, No. 1334, Transportation Research
Board, National Research Council, Washington. pp. 46-53.
1991. Ahern, Jack. "Writing to Learn in Landscape Architecture" Proceedings of the
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference, Michigan State
University.6 pp
1990. Ahern, Jack and John Fabel. "Linking the Local with the Global: Landscape
Ecology, Carrying Capacity, and the Sustainable Development Paradigm" In
International Federation of Landscape Architects Yearbook. Schmid, Arno S. ed.
Versailles-Cedex, France, International Federation of Landscape Architects, pp. 80-
85.
1988. Ahern, Jack. "The establishment and maintenance of wild flowers and native
woody plants in the highway landscape" . In Proceedings Fourth Symposium on
Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, Byrnes, Richard W.; Holt,
Harvey A. (editors), West Lafayette, IN ,Purdue University, pp. 99-104.
1987. Ahern, Jack. "Planning for the protection and use of sand and gravel resources in
urbanizing areas" In Proceedings 1987 National Symposium on Mining, Hydrology,
Sedimentology, and Reclamation, Purdue University.pp. 363-367.
E. Research Bulletins
1993.Fabos, Julius G.; Ahern, Jack; Lindhult, Mark. Blackstone Heritage Greenway
Planning and Community Development. Research Bulletin Number 745,
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Food and Natural
Resources, University of Massachusetts. 223 pp.
1993. Gavrin, Beth; Rasmussen, Meg; Fabos, Julius Gy.; Ahern, Jack. A Management
Plan to Balance Cultural and Natural Resources. Research Bulletin Number 744,
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Food and Natural
Resources, University of Massachusetts. 258 pp.
1992. Peggy Sloan, Julius Gy. Fabos, Jack Ahern. Improved Land Use Decision-Making
in Rural Communities: GIS in the 1990's. Research Bulletin Number 739, Winter
1992, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Food and Natural
Resources, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 64 pp 25 pp Appendix.
1992. LaCour, Niels, Julius Fabos, Jack Ahern. Landscape Planning for Watershed
Protection: The First Step, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Research
Bulletin, (In Press), 77 pp.
1991. Laws, David, Jack Ahern, Julius Gy. Fabos. Training for Landscape Architects and
Planners in Geographic Information Systems. Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment
Station, Research Bulletin 733, 109 pp.
F. Reviews
2004. Review of Human Ecology: following nature’s lead, Frederick Steiner, Review in:
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 79:3, pp. 338-339.
2000. Reviews of The Sustainable Landscape Charrettes: Surrey and Brentwood. Patrick
Condon. In Landscape and Urban Planning, 50:4, 271-273.
1998. Planning for Biodiversity, Sheila Peck. Journal of the American Planning
Association.
1997. Ahern, Jack. Review of : The Phenomenon Delta. Nico M. deJonge. Blaudruk,
Wageningen. in Landscape Journal: 16:2, 208-209.
1996. Conference Review “Working in a World Dominated by Humans”, the 10th
Annual Symposium of the US Division of the International Association for
Landscape Ecology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Landscape Journal,
15:1.
1996. Ecopolis, Sybrand Tjallingi. Landscape Journal 15:1, 86-87.
1995. Hydropolis, Hans van Engen, Dietrich Kampe and Sybrand Tjallingii, Editors.
Landscape Journal 15:1, 1996, 87-88.
1994. Ahern, Jack. Review of: Landscape Ecology of A Stressed Environment, Editors:
Vos Claire, and Opdam, Paul, Chapman and Hall, London. Review in: Landschap
(The Netherlands Journal for Landscape Ecology)
1994. Outdoor Space: Environments Designed by Dutch Landscape Architects since
1945, Meto Vroom, Editor. Thoth Press, Amsterdam. Landscape and Urban Planning.
1992. Growth Management in Countrified Cities: Volume III: Six Perspectives on a
Decade of Change. Doherty, J.C. in Rural Development Perspectives, US Dept. of
Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
1992. Land Degradation. C.J. Barrow. Cambridge University Press. Landscape and
Urban Planning.
1990. On-site Stormwater management: Applications for Landscape and Engineering,
Second Edition, Ferguson, Bruce and Debo, Thomas. Landscape Journal, August, 78-
80.
1995. Sustainable Urban Landscape Charrettes: Surry and Brentwood. Patrick Condon,
Landscape and Urban Planning.
G. Editorships
2010. Co-editor of Fabos Greenway and Landscape Planning Conference, July, Budapest,
Hungary.
2009 - Editorial Advisory Board, Future City Book Series, Springer Publishers.
2008 - Editorial Board, Landscape Architecture China
2006 - 2009, Editorial Board, Landscape Ecology Journal.
2005-present. Editorial Board, Ecological Engineering Journal, Japan.
2004 – present. Editorial Board of Landscape and Urban Planning Journal.
1995. Special Issue of Landscape and Urban Planning Journal "Greenways" including 25
refereed papers. 480 pp. Guest Co-editor with Julius Fabos.
1988-1992 Annual Proceedings of the Landscape and Land Use Planning Committee,
American Society of Landscape Architects, Washington, DC, Co-Editor
H. Professional and Periodical Articles
2011. Ahern, Jack and Zhou, Xiao. Greenway Planning Theory and Methods.
Landscape Architecture (China) 05/2011, pp. 104-107.
2009. Ahern, Jack. Green Infrastructure for China, LA China Journal, 2009-02:4, pp.
112-121. Chinese and English.
2008. Ahern, Jack. “7 Principles for Sustainable Design”. American Nurseryman.
August, 15: 36-43.
2002. Ahern, Jack. “Greenways as Strategic Landscape Planning”. Urban Green Tech.
2002, 47: 22-27. (Japanese Organization for Landscape and Urban Greenery
Technology Development).
2000. Ahern, Jack. “Eyes on the Future” Landscape Architecture Magazine, April, pp.
138-139.
1998. Ahern, Jack. Keynote address “Sustainable Open Space”. Published in: Ample
Opportunity: A Community Dialogue, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. pp. 206-213.
1995. Ahern, Jack. "New Era for New England" Landscape Design, April pp. 37-40.
1995. Ahern, Jack. "Plans Across the Watershed" Landscape Architecture , April.
1993. Ahern, Jack. and W. Gary Smith. "Learning from Wildflower Meadows"
Landscape Architecture, October pp. 164-167.
1992. Ahern, Jack; Gross, Meir, Finn, John. "Wildlife Corridors and Greenways: Using
GIS to Integrate Landscape Ecology and Open Space Planning". GIS World. 2:64-
69.
1988. Ahern, Jack. "Achieving Vegetative Diversity on America’s Roadsides", New
Alchemy Quarterly, New Alchemy Institute, Falmouth, MA. No.32, pp. 7-8.
1981.Ahern, Jack. "Aquaculture in a Quarry," Landscape Architecture, July.
